Our Imagine 09 Conference drew 400 of Europe’s leading advertisers and agencies to London’s South Bank to hear experts such as Microsoft’s Bill Buxton, Future Laboratory’s Martin Raymond and CPH Design’s Anna Kirah. The day’s presentations explored how, in an age of ever-accelerating innovation, it is the brands that embrace risk taking, consumer participation and the challenge of creating seamless experiences that will succeed.
North America’s premier gathering of cutting-edge communications leaders takes place at multiple venues in New York City. Advertising Week attracts clients, creative professionals, media executives and inspiring speakers with a common goal: to galvanize the industry. New this year are the day-long Mobile Advertising Summit, the U.S. Hispanic Television Summit and the American Association of Advertising Agencies’ O’Toole Awards.
The official interactive conference of Advertising Week, the IAB MIXX Conference & Expo is a capstone event for marketing and agency professionals – and the publishers and technology firms who help drive their efforts. Featured speakers include Yusuf Mehdi, senior vice president of Microsoft’s Online Audience Business Group and Yahoo! chief marketing officer Elisa Steele.
The Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival is the world’s most prestigious gathering of the communications industry and Microsoft Advertising has been a major sponsor since 2002. As founding sponsor of the Cyber Lions awards, we’ve celebrated and evangelised great digital creativity for the past eight years. During Festival week, Microsoft Advertising hosts a number of events: some exclusively for our guests, others open to all delegates.
Microsoft Advertising is a key sponsor of The Festival of Media - the world’s first global festival of media creativity and innovation. In its third year, the Festival has become a must attend two-day conference offering unrivalled networking opportunities at a conference and exhibition designed to showcase the best creative media thinking and explore emerging media opportunities.
Visit stand 293 at adTech on September 24 and 25 and Microsoft Advertising will demonstrate the opportunities available to advertisers across the full range of its media and technologies.